Eyelet.



No. 697,344. Patented Apr. 8, |902.

F. J. LELAND.

- EYELET.

(Application filed June 13, 1 901.)

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.rma l UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

v FRANK JAMES LELA'ND, OF KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE.

EYELET.

SPECIFICATION forming para; of Lem-.ers Patent No. 697,344, dated April s, 1902.

application' inea June 13, 1901.

T0 @ZZ whom it may concern:

= Beit known thatLFRANK JAMES LELAND, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Knoxville, in the county of Knox and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and 11nproved Belt-Eyelet, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to devices for lacing the ends of belts; and its object is to provide a new and improved eyelet which is simple and durable in construction, easily'applied, and arranged .to preserve the ends ot the belt from wear ordamage. Y

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, as will be fullydescribed hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, forming a part ot' this specitication, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a plan'view of the improvement. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the improvement, showing the members separated. Fig. 3 is an edge view of the same. Fig. 4 is a cross-section of the improvement as applied. Fig. 5 is a side elevation ofa modified form of the improvement with the members separated. Fig. 6 is a sectional plan view of the same, one of the members appearing partially pushed into the other member;y and Fig. 7 is a cross-section of the modification as applied.

The belt-eyelet (illustrated in Figs. l to 4, inclusive) consists, essentially, of members A and B, of which the member B has a tubular shank B', adaptedtobe pushed into the correspondingly-shaped shank A' of the member A. The shanks A' B' are formed with integral heads A2 B2, respectively, inthe shape of langes curved inward, the edges of the flanges being serrated, so as to readily engage the material of the belt C when the members are pushed one into the other, as is plainly indicated in Fig. et. On the front and rear of the shank B are formed tongues B3 ,adapted to engage shoulders A3, formed on the front and rear of the shank A', at the time the member B is pushed home in the member A, so thatl the tongues B3 are interlocked with corresponding shoulders As to securely hold the Serial No. 64,390.- (No model.)

members A and B in a locked position on the belt C. y

As indicated in Figs..2 and 3, the tongues B3 extend upward and outward, so that the shank B' readily passes into the shank A', the resiliency of the tongues B3.causing the same to snap into the corresponding shoulders A3 when the members are completely driven home on the belt.

In the modified form (shown in Figs. 5, 6, and 7) lthe members A4 B4 of the eyelet have shanks AG BG, of which the shank B is formed on the front and rear with integral tongues B7, adapted to engage notches A7 in the shank AG; but in this case the tongues B7 are not yielding, and consequently when the shank B6 is pushed into the shank As then the sides of the shank B6 spring inward, as indicated in Fig. 6, to allow the passage of the tongues B7 on the shank B6 until said tongues B7 snap into corresponding shoulders A7 in the shank A6. The shanks A5 and B6 are formed with heads A8 and B8, respectively, the same as above described in reference to the members A and B.

As illustrated in the drawings, the shanks A' and A are formed with a plurality of notches A3 or A" on each side of the. shank, the notches being located one above the other, so that the eyelet can be readily used on belts of different thicknesses.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentv 1. A belt-eyelet, comprising two members each having an oblon g hollow undivided shank `and a head, the head being in the form of a flange extending outwardly and curved in- Wardly,the edges of the lianges being serrated, one of the Shanks being provided with a plurality of shoulders on each side and the other with a tongue on each side adapted to spring into engagement with the shoulders, as set forth.

2. A belt-eyelet, comprising two members, eachhavingan oblonghollowundivided shank and a head, one of the shanks being of yielding material and provided with a rigid tongue on each side and the other with a plurality of shoulders on each side, whereby the opposing sides of the shank carrying the tongues will IOO spi-ing inward toward each other when the In testimony whereof I have signed my said shank is forced into the other shank to name to this specification in the presence of allow the passage of said tongues and permit two subscribing Witnesses.

them to snap into engagement with the shoul- FRANK JAMES LELAND. 5 ders with which they will be held in engage- Witnesses:

nient by the elasticity of the sides of the shank, BEN. A. HAMILTON,

ns set forth. \VI`LLIAM J. MCCOY. 

